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• Popular Reads

  

  How to Measure Portion Sizes with your Hands (Infographic)

  

  Organic wine

  

  Organic food production – how is it regulated?

  

  Optimum nutrition for sports performance: macronutrients & micronutrients

  

  Fighting food waste by innovative food packaging

  

  Childhood obesity (Infographic)

  

  Practical tips for a healthy and sustainable diet

  

  Food technologies: securing our future food supply

  

  Tips to reduce your food waste

  

  Sustainable protein: Meeting future needs

  

  Opportunities for nanotechnology in food and feed

  

  Farmed fish: A healthy and sustainable choice?

  

  Physical Activity And Health

  

  Small changes to prevent weight gain

  

  A life less sedentary

• Collaborative Projects

  

  EUFIC to host 1st ever communication symposium on food-based dietary guidelines at this year’s FENS European Nutrition Conference

  

  Eating the Gap II – Engaging Food Influencers to Bring Change

  

  New food trends come to life this weekend at the Leuven Food Fashion Festival

  

  Games of Food: Educational escape games that make the learning process fun and engaging

  

  The Future Kitchen Virtual Reality Experience

  

  EIT Food: Improving Food Together

  

  NanoPack Antimicrobial Film Extends Shelf Life of Fresh Cherries by 40%

  

  SmartChain – smart solutions in short food supply chains

  

  CIRCLES kick-starts: from research on microbes to healthy diets

  

  Gut microbiota linked to obesity and mental disorders EU-funded project ‘MyNewGut’ finds

  

  The microbiome saga: what does research need to do better?

  

  The food system is not ready for the future: how can innovation help?

  

  EIT Food London influencer event to discuss ‘food systems of the future’

  

  The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact and Mayors Summit: Dr Bettina Schelkle

  

  High performance polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) based food packaging solutions (YPACK)

  

  Fostering Integration and Transformation for FOOD 2030 (FIT4FOOD2030)

  

  Innovative packaging can play a key role to reduce food waste: Dr. Nina McGrath

  

  Why consumers should choose whole grain first: the potential of a EU Whole Grain Partnership

  

  Tackling food waste: turning nemesis into a saviour

  

  Perceived value of food and portion size are main drivers of food waste: Dr. Sophie Hieke

  

  European Congress on Obesity 2018: What’s new in obesity research?

  

  NanoPack to Present Novel Food Packaging at Anuga FoodTec

• Science Explained

  

  What are food safety risk assessments and why are they used?

  

  The Future of Organic Food Production in the EU

  

  Organic plant-based food

  

  How to accurately read a scientific paper

  

  Do you know how to find reliable information online?

  

  ABC on food processing (Infographic)

  

  How effective is the ketogenic diet?

  

  Towards more sustainable diets

  

  Hierarchy of scientific evidence (Infographic)

  

  Difference Between Hazard and Risk (Infographic)

  

  Difference Between Correlation and Causation (Infographic)

  

  Absolute Risk vs. Relative Risk: What’s the difference?